🔧 Stop Treating AI APIs Like REST APIs (They're Fundamentally Different)

You're building the wrong mental model.

Developers approach AI APIs the same way they approach Stripe, Twilio, or any standard REST endpoint. Send a request. Get a response. Parse JSON. Move on.

But AI APIs aren't deterministic services. They're intelligence brokers.

And if you keep treating them like glorified data fetchers, you'll build...